Joe Goddard

One of my favorites at the time.

You know, we discussed this with James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy from the DFA many years ago.

And they told me that they had taken that kick drum from Is It All Over My Face by Loose Joints, the Arthur Russell project.

We would just kind of record like some clapping in the room.

We didn't have a full drum kit in my bedroom, but we had a hi-hat because we thought it was an element of the drums that's good to do for real, to be able to introduce your own kind of groove with your own kind of style.

Alexis sang the words to the song right then and there in that original session.

For all of those years of making records together, we never had like a vocal booth.

So when Alexis is singing, he's just in the room with me with headphones on.

So I'm listening only to his voice without being able to hear the music.

And then I learned those words and sang just in unison with him.

And it would be the same when I would record vocals and Alexis would just be kind of listening to me.

You know, Alexis would be singing the verse to a song and I'm listening to him recording takes.

And that would spark in my mind like ideas for the next section of the song.

The chorus that Alexis had written was very beautiful and there had been a kind of strong Beach Boys reference because that was a band that both of us were really, really, really passionately kind of in love with.

So it has a lot of layers of vocals that we both kind of added.

We had this kind of funny children's glockenspiel that we would take to the live shows from the really early days.

It felt important to us to kind of bring a range of slightly unusual instruments with us.

And I think that's there in a fair amount of like hot chip music.

There's a kind of a childlike quality

And I remember that we had an auto harp.